2. The yellow people in Xiasha, Shenzhen and the Liao people in the New Territories of Hong Kong are two festivals in Spring and Autumn, and the ancestral graves and ancestral temples are sacrificed in spring.
Worship the mountain on Chongyang is a long-standing custom of Hong Kong people.
4. When Chongyang arrives, Hong Kong people either climb mountains with their families or visit graves to worship their ancestors.
Since the main cemeteries in Hong Kong are all on the mountains, it is timely to climb the mountain while sweeping the graves.
6. Most of these grave sweepers take one or several families as a unit, and pay homage to their ancestors with rich sacrifices and incense sticks.
7. After sweeping graves to worship ancestors, many Hong Kong people will take their families to eat, drink and go for an outing.
8. So the road to the cemetery is particularly crowded in the morning.
According to historical records, the custom of ancestor worship in Hong Kong originated from the Liao nationality in Shangshui, and it was one of the earliest nationalities who settled in the New Territories.
10. Liao still retains this custom, and its autumn festival scene is very huge.
1 1. But in terms of the number of participants, the form and scale of sacrifice, it is different from the ancestor worship activities of the indigenous inhabitants of the New Territories.
12. According to the data, the ancestor worship of the indigenous inhabitants of the New Territories is usually divided into three times: the first time is a private grave-sweeping, that is, a small family-style ancestor worship; The second time is to sweep the grave, ranging from a few households to more than ten households; The third time was a collective grave-sweeping, that is, the whole village shared the same surname, and all the people who moved out or lost came to worship their ancestors in groups.
13. People of ordinary nationalities will bring roast pigs, three wine offerings, bowls, chopsticks, cups, plates, sickles and other utensils.
14. When we arrived at the ancestral grave, some people built stoves with stones and cooked traditional dishes, while others cleaned weeds and garbage at the grave.